YouTube is being overrun with AI slop . And it probably doesn’t help that YouTube itself, and owner Google, is where a lot of it is coming from. The latest questionable decision from the operator of the web’s de facto home for video? Using AI-powered tools to “enhance” videos, without telling anyone—including the creators who made said videos.

YouTube viewers and video producers like Rhett Shull have noticed a certain sheen and smoothness to some videos that wasn’t intentionally done by the original uploaders. This sort of filtering isn’t new—in fact, you’ve probably seen it over-applied to old movie clips uploaded to TikTok and YouTube shorts, giving them an unnaturally smooth motion and overly glossy look for things like human skin. But the subtle application of these filters is par

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